Children of Time

This book is more Star Trek than Star Trek. It embodies the ideals of infinite diversity in infinite combinations in a way that struck me to my heart. It stretches our minds to consider the most alien and for many people the most feared animals as having the capacity to be people, with just a little help. In all of his work, Adrian Tchaikovsky is a bull in the china shop of our delicate distinctions and artificial barriers between "thing" and "not thing".

What a great book. I'm so happy I went back to it, and I'm looking forward to starting the second book in the trilogy, probably in the new year.

I would highly recommend this to any and all sci fi fans.

Una storia di scienza e tecnologia da una prospettiva completamente inaspettata. Un ragionamento molto interessante sul linguaggio e sulla terraformazione.

This was extremely good. Dunno why it took me a really long time to read... i kinda stalled out really hard halfway through but I suspect it was unrelated to the book itself and more just me. The end was really fun. I wasn't planning to read the sequel but I think I will now?

Half of this book was about average, the other half incredible -- so the total comes out to really rather good! Even the average story, about post-apocalyptic people looking for a new home, might have been worth reading, but what really grabbed my interest was the half of the story dealing with the birth of a spider civilization. No rubber forehead aliens here - the spiders felt really strange yet understandable. This was truly excellent and imaginative stuff with an ending I really loved.